FLOTSAM AND JETSAM

Release Year: 2018
Artist Origin: USA
Style: gritty intense savage thrash metal

historical American five-piece is best known to deliver technical balanced power metal, but this 1986's longplay debut, for the first time featuring the jaw-dropping performance by Jason Newsted on bass guitar, who has also written most of album's lyrics, epitomizes the rise and development of eighties' savage extreme metal, when most of new bands, including the Arizona natives, were aiming to nail it in maximally aggressive way, literally roaring all their guts out - this is how such a speed/thrash metal masterpiece was born, intensively pumping seemingly straightforward yet quite complex music, which effectively culminates in multi-layered title track; recent black 180g vinyl re-issue comes with a special vinyl mastering, pro-printed lyric insert with authentic design, and double-sided 60x60 cm poster